A vinyl emoji? There’s a campaign to create one.

I rarely use emojis in my emails/texts because I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of them. Certainly there’s an emoji for everything already, right? Well, no.

Believe it or not, there isn’t an emoji for “vinyl.” That’s clearly an oversight. There are already symbols for CDs and floppy discs. This is just…wrong.

There’s a new social media campaign and petition headed by Record Store UK to get the Unicode Consortium (the Dark Lords who act as keepers and arbitrators of the emoji universe) to approve a vinyl emoji.

I quote from the campaign:

“A vinyl emoji wouldn’t just represent a format: it would represent collecting, DJing, crate-digging, independent record shops, and the simple joy of putting a record on. This petition is a fun, simple way to show support for finally giving vinyl a place on the global keyboard!”

If you want to sign the petition, go here.